Even without the right to vote, Black women engaged in political organizing and partisan debates. Today, Black...
Women
Queen Bona helps us understand how elite Renaissance women acquired, maintained, and negotiated power. Among the women...
Lucy and Suzanne’s story shows that quiet, persistent rewriting of the narrative of oppression can be a...
It can be hard to estimate broad social trends in the Middle Ages, but some sources allow...
A new book explores the photographer’s dedication to feminism and civil rights in the early 20th century....
Exploring one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand”....
These women have had massive impacts on our laws and the advancement of human rights. Emma Lazarus...
All opportunities for education, prospect, liberation and development were closed to women. By Khelifa Arezki and Katia...
Her work as an attorney in the 1970s changed the court’s approach to women’s rights and how...
The very concept of “woman” changed in a number of ways during the Middle Ages. Introduction Women...
Kübler-Ross was one of the central figures in the hospice care movement. Introduction Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8,...
She was the first woman to be elected head of the American Heart Association. Introduction Helen Brooke...
The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep....
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Abzug stood on the front lines protesting...
After years of struggle, on Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the...
As the last Ptolemaic heir of Alexander the Great, she remained committed to his policy of cultural...
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Prohibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
Women were key to the Democratic Party’s transformation in the 1920s and 1930s away from its socially...
The Republican Party had established itself as the party of reform in the 19th century, not the...
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
A shared understanding and cooperation between secular and religious helpers for addressing domestic violence is important. Originally...
Reviewing current research on the connection between Christian religious language and domestic violence against women. Originally published...
Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
How lesbian authors have reinvented the imagined spaces of the U.S. South through print culture, activism, and...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art....
Elizabeth I engage in a memorable invention of herself as a legend in her own lifetime. Introduction...